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Academic librarians and library administrators explore the theory, practice, benefits, and pitfalls of building a library collection based on requests by library users. Among the topics are electronic books and patron-driven acquisition (PDA) in academic libraries, a pilot PDA on a microscopic budget, technical services aspects of demand-driven electronic book acquisitions, patron-driven digital collection development in archives, seven reasons to be skeptical about patron-driven acquisitions, and patron-driven versus librarian-selected. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)